To be fair even if he wanted to buy the team, I doubt AM would sell to him unless he got 1.2-1.3 bill that Ryan Smith threw around. Even he’s smart enough not to overpay to that degree sad to say.
Buying might have been fiscally irresponsible, but not buying I think will prove to be shortsighted. Smith is a competitor of Ishbia's, and the team is still an asset, one that Ish let Smith just waltz right in, take and ship off. Now Smith is going to take that asset, leverage them, and get a new barn built with it.
Meanwhile, Ish is going to be stuck with a degrading building that he still doesn't own and the prospect of his own club's stability in the Valley possibly facing questions down the road when that lease is up. It would have been a lot easier to get a new building with two pro teams instead of one.
Water under the bridge. Pure speculation on my part of course. But given the shit with Chase Field and the DBacks, and just the overall climate of what the Arizona population has shown us in the last couple years regarding not having an appetite for any new stadiums (or even renovations), I wouldn't be surprised if in 15 years, the Cardinals are the only pro team in town.
All this said, I pray I'm wrong. Shit, funny thought - watch the Suns move to Glendale one day lol